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- When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence…
- Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to…
- The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,…
- You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
- If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
- When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
- The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or…
- There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the…
- How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody…
- What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
- They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into…
- They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The…
- They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm…
- When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she…
- But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight…
- In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at…
- I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it…
- you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.
- I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I…
- Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min…
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